Sanders v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Muniz v. State (1993), Granger v. State (1999)
83 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Lugo v. State · Denison v. State · Williams v. State · Warren v. State · Green v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A perusal of the new Penal Code assures one that a defense does not merely negate an element of an offense. Rather, in all of the Code’s defenses, one principle runs consistently throughout: evidence which constitutes a defense requires the accused to admit the commission of the offense, but to justify or excuse his actions so as to absolve him of criminal responsibility for engaging in conduct which otherwise constitutes a crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Ex Parte Nailor““This Court has, since the enactment of the new Penal Code [1974], noted that the Penal Code specifically lists ‘defenses’ and that the bench and bar should not use the term ‘defense’ for an issue not so specifically labeled by the Code.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““This Court has long held that, if the alleged defensive theory merely negates an element of the offense, then no affirmative charge must be given.” (Citing authorities).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Courtney v. State · Warren v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.